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A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42% in a Phase 3 trial involving 1,137 patients with stage IIB–IV melanoma. The results are...

Certificate authority eMudhra is exiting the TLS business after researchers revealed it had issued eight intermediate certificates with critically weak private keys, including one as small as 4 bits, ...

A remote, unauthenticated client can force HTTP/3 servers to allocate tens to thousands of times more memory than the request occupies on the wire via QPACK header expansion vulnerabilities. Seven of ...

OpenAI is preparing a new $30 billion fundraising round at a $1.25 trillion valuation, positioning itself ahead of a planned IPO. If achieved, this would make OpenAI the most highly valued private com...

New Mexico imposed a record $25 billion fine on Meta after a jury found the company guilty of nearly 44 million violations of state consumer protection laws. The state's Attorney General refused to jo...

Hackers exploited two critical PHP vulnerabilities four days before they were publicly disclosed, with Amazon warning they are now being broadly exploited in the wild. The flaws, uncovered with the he...

NVIDIA has open-sourced OpenShell, a runtime environment designed for deploying and managing fleets of autonomous AI agents safely and privately. The framework addresses key challenges in multi-agent ...

A researcher publicly posted about upcoming PHP RCEs (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619) without realizing an embargo was in place, disrupting coordinated disclosure schedules and creating additional ...

A new triangulation algorithm claims to outperform the popular earcut library, processing 3.7 million map polygons in just 489 ms. The technique likely leverages specialized optimizations for map-spec...

A jailbreak for Nintendo Switch 2 (NS2JB) has been discovered and documented, allowing users to run unauthorized software on the console. The post details the technical approach and steps involved in ...

DuckDB team released version 2.0.0 LTS "Cinnamon Teal" with major new features including the Quack protocol for cross-process query execution, asynchronous I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, agent mode,...

Warhound, a new venture from Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, has raised $200M to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement applications, equipping them with Anduril's sensor and combat ge...

Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a world model startup, to accelerate its self-driving vehicle ambitions. Third Dimension's AI technology creates simulations that mirror the physical world, which ...

1Password released a new feature that allows AI agents to authenticate into users' personal accounts without ever accessing or seeing the actual passwords, addressing a key security concern as AI agen...

OpenAI has made its Decisions API model widely available, directly competing with TypeSafe's Jev model in the emerging decision-model space. The API reconfigures ChatGPT Luna for faster inference—redu...

Microsoft has attributed a major breach of IT management platform ConnectWise to China-aligned hackers who deployed AI agents to rapidly compromise thousands of customer systems. The incident highligh...

A security researcher has demonstrated a software-only partial jailbreak of the Nintendo Switch 2 using an exploit in SmileBasic 4, gaining userland access for running homebrew, modding games, and bac...

Samsung appears to confirm that Apple's iPhone Duo launch boosted sales of its Galaxy Z8 foldables, with European Z Fold 8 sales up 45% and search volume spiking 460% around the iPhone Duo announcemen...

Hackers compromised over 300 Tor exit nodes by exploiting a reused password on a Tor management server and deploying the decade-old Ebury backdoor. The attackers reconfigured the nodes to intercept SS...

Etsy is introducing stricter rules requiring sellers to include at least one unedited photo of actual items against real backgrounds, aiming to combat the growing volume of AI-generated content in lis...

Fortune reports the next Xbox could cost $1,200–$1,800 at its 2028 launch, sparking immediate skepticism. The author argues Microsoft likely won't actually price it that high, citing Phil Spencer's ow...

Anthropic is donating its Agent Skills specification to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, following the same path it took with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This move en...

The UN Environmental Programme has acknowledged that the 1.5°C warming target from the 2015 Paris Agreement is no longer viable, shifting focus to limiting the duration and magnitude of how much we ex...

An arxiv paper examining how AI is reshaping the openness of scientific knowledge, drawing parallels to historical enclosures of common resources. The article likely discusses concerns about proprieta...

The article explores how different AI models converge on similar 'controversial' perspectives about humans, likely shaped by shared alignment training and safety fine-tuning. It examines the implicati...

An open-source project called hackios-xnu-kernel enables running the full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android devices by leveraging the XNU kernel. The project demonstrates technical feasibility of porting A...

Quad9, a well-known privacy-focused DNS resolver, has announced it will cease operations in France. The decision likely relates to legal and regulatory pressures in the country, including France's ant...

The Last Museum is a semantic search platform that indexes 5.8 million artworks from major museums worldwide, allowing users to search by meaning and context rather than just keywords. It leverages AI...

Xbox is introducing a fee of 24 to 40 cents per hour for users who want to stream games they have already purchased, marking a shift in how Microsoft monetizes game streaming. The policy has drawn cri...

A woman who never opened a Cash App account was jailed for three nights and now faces up to six years in prison, sparking debate over identity theft, due process, and how fintech platforms handle frau...

Mark Zuckerberg has engineered a new stock class structure to potentially pay California's proposed billionaire tax while retaining control of Meta. The move demonstrates strategic financial planning ...

Andreessen Horowitz is rebranding its a16z Crypto unit to a16z Frontier, signaling a broadening of focus beyond blockchain into emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and new human-machine networks....

The Browser Company is shutting down Arc browser on December 22 and pivoting focus to its newer product, Dia. Despite a fiercely loyal enthusiast following, Arc never achieved the mass-market Chrome a...

Canva has released its first proprietary image generation model, making it available to all users across the platform. The company promises improved customization capabilities and lower costs compared...

A former OpenAI science lead has launched Warp Science, a startup that aims to automate wet lab operations using robots. Human chemists will train the robots by wearing cameras and sensor gloves to de...

Microsoft's AI diagnostic system reportedly outperformed generalist doctors on hard cases in a study published in Science. However, most of the improvement appears to stem from the underlying AI model...

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström outlines the company's strategy to position itself as the preferred music service for AI agents, suggesting that the rise of autonomous AI agents could drive new disco...

Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in Q3 2026, accelerating from 91,000 a year earlier, as fiber and fixed wireless providers gain share. The company called competitors' low pricing ...

NASA is increasingly concerned that SpaceX's Starship may not achieve the necessary lift capacity improvements in time to support a crewed lunar landing this decade under the Artemis Program. A new es...

A leaked trailer for the cancelled Mass Effect: Universe game has surfaced, showcasing in-engine footage from BioWare's internal team using pre-production assets. The two-minute clip features an N7 of...

BMW is expanding its 2027 X5 lineup with both an all-electric iX5 and continued internal combustion/hybrid options on the CLAR platform. The iX5 borrows BMW's sixth-generation electric powertrain from...

Guinea-Bissau's government formally rejected a US-funded clinical trial that would have withheld the hepatitis B newborn vaccine from half of participating infants, citing severe ethical concerns. The...

A new emulation project called VBoy Color reimagines Nintendo's Virtual Boy with full-color display by using a tile-based palette system that assigns distinct four-color palettes to each 8×8 tile in V...

GM reaffirmed its commitment to electrification and autonomy despite political headwinds and expired EV tax credits, announcing that its hands-off Super Cruise system will expand across nearly its ent...

Meta has revised its business terms to remove language suggesting it could freely train AI on news sites, but legal experts argue the changes are insufficient. Professor James Grimmelmann notes that l...

Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers at Claroc discovered that shared conversation links were publicly accessible via DNS, exposing sensitive internal documents like revenue rev...

The FCC is blocking gadgets containing the HiVision Hi3516CV610 UHD Smart Vision SoC chip, citing national security concerns over 'foreign surveillance chips.' This marks the first exercise of the FCC...

Amazon is rebranding Kindle Unlimited to Kindle+, with a new focus on AI-powered audiobooks using virtual voices. Authors enrolling in KDP Select can now add ACX audiobooks to Kindle+ and leverage AI ...

A developer shares 'Hedra,' a 3D open-world game they wrote entirely from scratch while in high school, now available as a public GitHub repository. The project showcases an impressive technical achie...

A HackerNews discussion about someone departing from the Arc browser, generating notable engagement with 222 points and 201 comments. The post likely reflects on the user's experience with Arc's uniqu...

GNU Taler is preparing to launch operations in Germany, marking a significant step for the free digital cash system. The initiative represents one of the first national-level deployments of the open-s...

pwn.watch is a real-time live feed that displays currently active exploits and compromised hosts, aggregating data from various open-source honeypot and threat intelligence networks. It provides a vis...

Indian cybersecurity company eMudhra announced it will exit the global SSL/TLS certificate business, ceasing issuance of new certificates and directing existing customers to migrate elsewhere. The dec...

The article reveals that macOS's /usr/bin/gcc is a real binary, not an alias, that internally dispatches to clang based on its invoked name. The author reverse-engineers the binary to show it checks i...

A developer building a custom container runtime shares key insights about Docker's internals, revealing that containers are merely restricted processes using Linux namespaces, cgroups, and networking ...

The author describes a hacky technique for portably accessing errno from non-C languages like Hare without using C wrapper functions. Since errno is typically a compiler/implementation-specific macro ...

The article describes a Caddy reverse proxy pattern using forward_auth to expose only share links from self-hosted services like Immich and Nextcloud without revealing the full service to the internet...

The article examines how dynamically typed languages (Python, Ruby, JavaScript) represent object attributes, comparing hash-table-based models with in-line storage. It highlights performance drawbacks...

The article discusses methods for tracking devices on a network, building on a previous post about using arp-scan for network discovery. The author shares their experience with hostname naming convent...

The article discusses using lookup tables to efficiently convert enums to strings, noting that naive switch-case implementations produce poor assembly at low optimization levels. Modern GCC at -O2 and...

The author shares a practical approach to managing dependencies for simple Python scripts using Nix flakes on non-NixOS Linux distributions. The article demonstrates how Nix can isolate both Python pa...

Garmin has revamped and opened up its Connect Developer API program, introducing a tier specifically for personal use. The update comes amid growing concerns that companies may restrict data access as...

Elon Musk has reportedly made a $1 billion investment in Skydance, providing a significant financial boost to the company. The investment comes as Skydance seeks to reduce costs and lift its stock pri...

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work across its entire 30,000-employee workforce, expanding from a prior smaller pilot program. The move signals growing enterprise adoption of AI tools for internal produc...

Spotify confirmed it is rolling out QR code verification for its Family Plan to ensure members live in the same household, but downplayed the move as a 'routine improvement' rather than a crackdown. T...

Investors share insights on the current challenges and strategies founders face when raising a Series A in today's funding environment.

Tesla plans to expand its two-seater Cybercab robotaxi service to additional U.S. cities this year, though the company remains vague about how many paid rides have been completed.

Calley Means, a top ally of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and co-author of the MAHA policy framework, resigned from the Trump administration citing frustration over stalled food policy reform...

Russia's Stalker reconnaissance satellite has drawn attention from US officials who noted its concerning resemblance to an orbital weapon. A Russian official previously called commercial satellites le...

Prime Video released the official full trailer for The Rings of Power Season 3, showcasing a rising Sauron conquering Middle-earth with his Orc army. The season reveals the origins of the future Ringw...

Spotify is implementing a QR code verification system for its Family Plan to ensure all members actually live together. Co-CEO Alex Norström called it a routine improvement rather than a crackdown dur...

Global PC shipments fell 21% year-over-year in Q3 2026, snapping a two-year growth streak, as rising costs of RAM, SSDs, and chips from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm drove up prices across devices. Smartph...

A roundup preview of fall 2026 tech earnings season covering major developments at Tesla, SpaceX, Meta, and Netflix, including AI investments, potential Tesla-SpaceX merger talks, Meta's new share cla...